CONTEST CLOSED! THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO ENTERED. WE HAVE A WINNER – TERESA – CONGRATULATIONS. I WILL BE CONTACTING YOU TO SEND YOU YOUR GOODIES. TERESA’S QUOTE WAS:

“When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance”

Just to let you know i use the random number generator to choose a number – i wish i could give you all a prize.

I am 61 today and in celebration of living 61 years and to thank you for your support and love over the years I am having a contest giveaway! Yay! You might be wondering why i am showing you my ear? Well my wonderful son and daughter-in-law gifted me with hearing aids – you can’t see them can you? They are so skookum. Now i can hear layers of things i could never hear before, can hear conversations going on in the cubicles at the bank and don’t have to keep saying WHAT???? It’s so cool – and to think i was so reticent to get them and admit i have a hearing loss.

Birthday Contest

I’ll be giving away an original illustration (i made inspiration cards with these) – Believe, A “love who you are” dog tag necklace, a set of 10 postcards and admittance to my online workshop Journal Bliss! The workshop is on art journaling and is full of techniques, tips and tricks.

In order to enter the contest please let me know in the comment section of my blog on this post what your favourite quote is. I’ll be drawing one lucky winner Wednesday June 24 at 9 am PST. Good Luck!

Art Journal Summer School

If you want to have some summer art journaling fun which you’re on holidays please join me for Art Journal Summer School – it’s happening soon………in two weeks!

I really want to enter your contest for a spot in the art journal workshop before your extended deadline of June 24th passes…my favorite quote is the one about may our “passion and creativity is our Genious”…

Oh gosh, I love quotes so it’s hard to choose a favorite, but I really believe “If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” Thanks for the chance to win, this is awesome! Happy Birthday to you!

I have so many, but this one hits home more as I speak about magic to people all the time.

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. Roald Dahl

And the other that I have written in a story that I wrote, and pasted up to remind me is this one:
We limit our ability to love – Love doesn’t! D. Cresswell

Happy Birthday, Violette! Hope you had a super day!
A favourite quote…hard to pick just one, but here goes:
“Let the beauty that you love, be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.” Rumi

My favorite quote is “Be present every day”. I constantly have to work on this because I seem to spend a lot of time agonizing over the past or worrying about the future. Thanks for this give away and I hope your birthday was wonderful!

Happy Birthday Month to you! You are so blessed to have such a wonderful family who honor and cherish you! My favorite quote is ” it is love that makes the impossible possible.”
Congrats on your hearing aids and accepting them and being able to hear again! I’m sharing this post with my Mom so maybe she will get some.

Hi!
Most importantly, I hope you have a wonderful birthday!
I recently bought Journal Bliss, and just found this site because of that. It’s GREAT!
I have several quotes I love, but ONE of my favorites is “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

My favorite quote is by Steve Jobsþ,
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

My favorite quote is by Steve Jobsþ,
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

Happy birthday! What a generous thing to do! It’s hard to choose from so many amazing quotes, so I hope you’ll indulge me and let me share two.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I that I didn’t understand the assignment and I told then that they did not understand life. John Lennon.

This to me is key of life, happiness and success.
Happy birthday again sweet Violette! Thank you for being such cheerfulness daily through my Internet 🙂 <3

My absolute favorite quote is by William Shakespeare “To Thine Own Self Be True” it speaks to me on so many levels. Hope you have a wonderful birthday celebration! Thanks for sharing your positive energy with the world!

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand… there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.” Frodo Baggins

Happy birthday Violette! I am getting hearing aids too..I will be 64 in September so its about time right? Anyway I love so many quotes but my favorite is Life..its not a dress rehearsal. Love you dear lady have a great day!

Happy birthday, Violette! It sounds like you’ve had quite a lovely celebration and I hope all of the goodness of it all spills over into the next year. Today, my favorite quote is by Pablo Picasso and it is “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” When I am all full of paint, there is no room for the dust. Hugs, Julie XOX

Most happy belated birthday wishes, dearest Violette!!
I have SO many favourite quotes, but Virginia Woolf’s ‘I am rooted, but I flow’ speaks to the very depths of me 🙂
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway – you are such a generous, loving Soul xx
{{{hugs from England }}}

Happy Birthday, Violette! I was watching Orson Welles on you tube and his parting words in a video/old commercial were “Paul Masson will sell no wine before it’s time.” With that voice I would have bought it.

Happy Birthday, Violette! You look fabulous and I LOVE the Gypsy Wagon your daughter made, very special. There are so many marvelous words floating through our world these days, but my favorite quote right now (and words I do try to live by as I age) is:

Happy birthday! My favorite quote is from the book of ecclesiastics: “for everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” it reminds me to maintain gratitude and balance in my life
Laurie

I am a June baby too 🙂 good month to be born in I think … Happy Birthday to you and what a wonderful gift for your family to give you. My favorite quote (well one of them as I have many) follows….

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

May you be filled with the magical joy you so generously share with us! At 60 I embraced the conscious assignment of making my life slower, deeper, more loving, more conscious of the tiny moments of pleasure that I used to be too busy to notice! My favorite quote inspires me “Beware the bareness of a busy life.” Socrates

Happy birthday! My favourite quote is ‘do what makes you happy’. My grandad used to say this to me when I was struggling with hard decisions and now I see the quote in lots of places and think of him x

So happy you can hear well, again. I recently lost my husband of 60 years and was his caretake for 13 yrs. During the time I cared for him I would enjoy your books and quiet my mind and heart. Thank you.

Happy Birthday and congratulations on your hearing aids! Life changing! I’m a speech-language pathologist and work with children with complex communication needs who have limited verbal output. My favourite quote is: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE ME. I KNOW MORE THAN I SAY, THINK MORE THAN I SPEAK, AND NOTICE MORE THAN YOU REALIZE.

One of my favorite quotes is by Marianne Williamson: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.”

Happy Birthday. I was so happy and surprised to get your email, for some reason, I have not been receiving them. Will have to check into your new class. Does it follow the book?
My favorite quote of the day is” If you ever spill ink, you will never cry over spilled milk.” unknown.

Happy Birthday Violette and blessings for many more to come!
My favorite quote is “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.” Albert Einstein
Thank you for the giveaway!

This has always resonated with me from mark Twain, ““We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

My favorite quote would have to be the “Believe that life is worth living…..” It would have sustained me through the dark days before surgery and after, when first I wasn’t sure I would make it through surgery, and then the painful days recovering afterwards. Thank you, Violette!

Violette! I wanted to say thank you again for donating your artwork to our fundraiser last Saturday!
Also I wanted to say thank you, because you have literally blown my mind with all the possibilities I can use to express myself! You have truly changed my life!

My favorite quote is from Oprah: “The greatest adventure you can take is living the life of your dreams”

Happy Birthday, Violette!! 🙂
I have so many favorite quotes it’s so hard to choose! I am so glad you made us name some though…because I get to write down some new ones!!
My favorite for the day, “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. -Dr. Seuss.” Thank you for the chance to win your wonderful art and workshop!! 🙂

My mom always told us “never leave for tomorrow what you can do today.” I’e been living and following that quote ever since I was a child and it has helped me reach my goals and finish projects every day. Yay for my very wise mamacita! I’ll be needing one of those things soon, Violette. I’m ready!

There are so many creative & inspiring quotes that apply to each part of our lives as parents, family members, individuals, and artists.

Fave art teacher quote I share with my students:
“What would you attempt if you knew you would not fail?”
-Robert Schuller
(It may seem simple, yet the fear of failure hold so many of us back from what could be nothing short of miraculous.)

Artist Quote that I love:
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see”
-Edgar Degas
Being an artist and a person who loves art changes you as a person & makes you see the world around you in a different way.

Happy Birthday Violette, and I wish you all the best for the coming year.

I have many quotes that I love, but I think this one is special – “We must accept life for what it actually is — a challenge to our very essence and quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Stop acting so small. You are the Universe in ecstatic motion.”
Rumi
I just love how it points out our own tendency to hold ourselves back into tiny little boxes. Boxes that don’t need to be there. I hope the rest of your birthday has been filled with beautiful sounds!!!

Happy Birthday! Wishing you the best! I hear you(lol), I just got hearing aids, at 58. I tell people I destroyed my ears with rock and roll (in the 70’s).
My fav quote is “The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life, the stronger the daughter.” -Anita Diamond, The Red Tent (which is a great book about honoring women).

It is a long one and I thought I posted before.
Rocky Balboa: The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you’re hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!

I’m grateful for the chance to put my name in and, to be honest, when you asked what my fav quote was it ended up being something I’ve thought of often and was happy to reflect on it again. TY! I am glad you had a wonderful bday. My daughter turned 18 on the 17th of June and I cried thinking of my baby growing up. June is a wonderful month to celebrate a new life.. no matter how many years she has been with us! I’m thankful you are here Violette. 🙂

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Who is Violette

Hi there! I’m an avid art journaler, cartoonist, idea factory and muse. My blog is all about my creative life and how I imbue creativity in all that I do! I hope it inspires you to get your mojo going too!